McAvoy returns, Bruins use balanced attack to sink Sharks
SAN JOSE (Interstat) — Charlie McAvoy scored in his season debut after serving a six-game suspension, and the Boston Bruins beat the San Jose Sharks 6-3 on Tuesday night at SAP Pavilion. Boston improved to 5-2; San Jose dropped to 3-3. Fraser Minten led Boston with two goals, four shots on goal, two penalty minutes and two hits. Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves on 37 shots. William Borgen, Matthew Poitras and Pavel Zacha also scored for Boston, while Morgan Geekie had two assists and David Pastrnak added an assist. Charlie McAvoy added one goal, three shots on goal and one hit. Casey Mittelstadt and Nikita Zadorov assisted on Minten’s first goal. Marat Khusnutdinov also had an assist for Boston. Macklin Celebrini had one goal and one assist for San Jose, and Ivar Stenberg scored once and assisted on Celebrini’s third-period goal. Boston scored twice in the first period, twice in the second and twice in the third. San Jose scored once in each period. Attendance was 14,748.